For my Professional Inquiry Project, I arranged a piece of music and created accompaning booklets to help both students and teachers feel more comfortable about improvisation. This resource is meant to give the teacher and young musician a comprehensive and scaffolded approach at how improvisation can be approached. There are many ways that this skill can be approached and I feel that this approach presents it in a way that can help students understand what they need to know next rather than everything they need to know at once. When students are presented with too much information at one time they can be overwhelmed which is the feeling I am trying to avoid through this booklet. This approach is meant to be presented in a way that scaffolds students up to the final product, which in this case is being able to improvise on Red Clay, and creates transferrable skills which can be used in many musical situations.
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"Improvising is music which comes from our very soul,
once we have attained the skills we need to be
successful in this art it is our job to forget
everything and just play."